Tire.



A. BELER.

TIRE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 21, 1912.

Patented May 5, 1914.

Attorneys 4 NIE ADOLF BELER, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

TIRE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 5, 1914.

Application filed November 21, 1912. Serial No. 732,732.

To all 10. mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, AnoLr BELER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pit-tsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Tire, of which the following is a specification.

One object of the present invention is to provide a cushion tire, the stifi'ness and resiliency of which are enhanced by the provision of a plurality of cells located within the casing of the tire, the construction being such that an inflation of the tire is rendered unnecessary.

The invention aims, further, to provide a cellular tire which may be manufactured readily and at a minimum expense, by methods well known in the art.

It is within the scope of the invention to increase the strength of, and to improve the wearing qualities of, devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings :Figure 1 shows in ver tical longitudinal section, a portion of a tire constructed in accordance with the present invention, parts remaining in elevation; Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the structure shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a fragmental section of the structure shown in Fig. 1, the cutting plane in Fig. 3 being at right angles to the cutting plane in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a section similar to Fig. 3, Fig. 4 illustrating a modified form of the invention.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 denotes a casing which if desired, although not of necessity, may be provided with clencher ribs 2. Projecting from one side 3 of the casing 1 and extended toward the median plane of the casing 1 are cells 4. Projecting from the other side 5 of the casing 11 and extended toward the median plane of the casing are cells 6. At their inner ends, indicated at 8, the cells 4 and 6 are open, between the ribs 2. The cells 4 and 6 extend entirely across the casing 1, radially of the casing. The cells 4 alternate with the cells 6, circumferentially of the casing, each cell 6 lying between a pair of cells 4, and vice versa. The cells 4 and 6 are in contact with each other, adjacent the median plane of the wheel, as indicated at 7 the ends of the cells of one series overlapping the ends of the cells of the other series, circumferentially of the casing 1. When the structure is to be used upon a heavy car, the cells 4 and 6 are internally reinforced by means of ribs 9 which connect the crowns of the cells with the sides 3 and 5 of the casing, it being noted that the cells are of approximately semispherical form.

In Fig. 4, wherein a modified form of the invention is shown, the casing is denoted generally by the numeral 10, the cells being denoted by the numerals 11 and 12. The cells 11 and 12 are in contact, as indicated at 14. The structure shown in Fig. 4 diifers from the structure shown in Fig. 3 only by the omission of the reinforcing ribs 9, the device depicted in Fig. 4 being adapted primarily for use upon a light car.

It will be understood that any of the common structural materials employed in the art, may be used in fashioning the device herein disclosed.

From the foregoing it will be observed that an adequate support for the casing 1 is provided, both radially and transversely, an inflation of the casing being unnecessary.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A vehicle tire comprising a casing provided in its interior with separately formed, radial, semi-cylindrical cells presenting curved faces toward the median plane of the tire.

2. A vehicle tire comprising a casing provided in its interior and upon its opposite sides, respectively, with separately formed, radial cells presenting curved faces toward the median plane of the tire, the cells being Wider circulnferentially of the tire than transversely of the tire the cells being connected with the casing upon opposite sides of the vertical median plane of the casing.

A vehicle tire provided in its interior and upon its opposite sides with semi-tubular cells, each cell having individual Walls disposed radially of the tire, the Walls of each cell being secured to the inner face of 10 the tire.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

ADOLF BELER. lVitnesses SELINA lVILLsoN, HERBERT D. LAWSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patent; Washington, D. C. 

